

      KEDS Data Set Archives

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     -- Purpose of Archive Site -- 

This site contains older versions of various data sets. We are no longer
working with these but they might have some utility in replication studies.


     -- Levant data set: July 2004 version -- 

Download Levant WEIS data (.zip)
<Levant.WEIS.04.06.zip>


     -- Levant data set: November 2003 version -- 

Download Levant WEIS data (.zip)
<Levant.WEIS.03.10.zip>


     -- Levant data set: August 2003 version -- 

Download Levant WEIS data (.zip)
<Levant.WEIS.03.07.zip>


     -- Levant data set: May 2000 version -- 

Folder containing events (N=95,464) and a tab-delimited text file
containing monthly total scores (Goldstein scale) for dyadic
interactions within the following set of countries: Egypt, Israel,
Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria, USA, and USSR/Russia. Coverage is
April 1979 to September 1999. KEDS coding dictionaries and an index of
the phrases generating each actor and verb code are also included. The
data sets are compressed using the .sit (Macintosh) and .zip
(DOS/Windows) formats.

Download Levant data (.zip)
<Lev7999.zip>

Last update: 15 May 00


     -- Levant data set: January 1999 version -- 

Download Levant data (.zip)
<Lev7998.zip>


     -- Gulf data set: February 1998 version -- 

Download 1998 Gulf data (.zip)
<GULF98.ZIP>


     -- Balkans data set, May 2000 version -- 

Folder containing events (N = 73,752) for the major actors (including
ethnic groups) involved in the conflicts in the former Yugoslavia.
Coverage is April 1989 through February 2002. TABARI coding dictionaries
are included in the folder. The data sets are compressed using the .sit
(Macintosh) and .zip (DOS/Windows) formats.

Download Balkans data (.zip)
<Balkans.data.zip>

Last update: 18 May 00


     -- West Africa data set, 1989-1999: June 2000 version -- 

Folder containing events (N=16,075) for the major actors in West Africa.
Coverage is January 1989 through December 1999; source is full-story
coding of Reuters articles. Most of the major opposition groups in the
Liberian and Sierra leone civil wars are coded; consult the KEDS coding
dictionaries (included) for the codes used for various actors.

Download West Africa data (.zip)
<WestAfrica.zip>

Last update: 6 June 00


     -- Bosnian conflict data set, 1991-1995 -- 

This is a WEIS-coded data set covering the Bosnian conflict; it contains
15,618 events for the period January 1991 to December 1995. This data
set was used in the Goldstein and Pevehouse (1996) study of the Bosnian
conflict. The data set is compressed using the .zip format.

Download Pevehouse and Goldstein Bosnia data
<bosnia.Pevehouse.zip> (.zip)
Click here to go to Jon Pevehouse's data page
<http://www.polisci.wisc.edu/users/pevehous/data.htm>


     -- BCOW-coded Middle East Political Events Data 1979-1995 -- 

This is a file of an event data set coded from Reuters lead sentences
using the Behavioral Correlates of War (BCOW) coding system. It covers
six Middle Eastern actors (Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestinians
and Syria; interactions with any other actor in the international system
are included) for 1979-1995. The data set contains about 53,000 events.

Download BCOW-coded Middle East data
<medata.BCOW.zip>
(data were coded by Pevehouse in his earlier incarnation as a University
of Kansas undergraduate)


     -- Older versions of KEDS program -- 

KEDS version 0.9b6.3 <KEDS.9b6.3.sit>
[September 1996]

KEDS version 0.9b6.4 <KEDS.9b6.4.sit>
[October 1997]

KEDS version 0.9b7.1 <KEDS.9b7.1.sit>
[March 1998]


     -- Older versions of TABARI program -- 

TABARI version 0.2.02
<TABARI.2.02.sit>
[April 2000]

TABARI version 0.3.07
<TABARI.3.07.sit>
[January 2002]

